Sterility in young male - Page 2

Females can pick up brucillosis from the ground, from other affected females - males normally can only get it from breeding an affected female.  But definately females can get it from "environment".  I've never heard they can be born with it... will ask my repro vet about that.

molly

There still is the posibility that he just does not produce good sperm. One out of 10 bulls can have low sperm counts and 3 to 5 out of 100 can be sterile with no physical explaination. Check him a couple more times after testing for any viral possibilities. Dirty pipes, resent fever in the past 30 days are all posible. So have a good vet check him thouroughly and retest at 2 week intervals at least two more times. The semen they deposit today was made 6 weeks prior in a bull not sure how long ago in a dog, but not the day they release it.

just a though, mahon

I remember my vet telling me that individual dogs can vary alot in their sperm count, some days being very low and other days good, so possibly it was just a bad time for your male. However, the fact that he was not very interested in the female is a little more worrying, if she really was ready. I have heard of young imported males turning out sterile as Uber land mentioned, and I have heard this blamed on the use of anabolic steroids to build more muscle mass during the development of the dog, I am not sure how reliable this info is and obviously is not the case with your dog. Is it possibe that any other underlying issues could be involved, eg thyroid? I would be inclined to do another sperm count in a week or so and if it still comes out low then ask your vet what further tests could be carried out. In the meantime supplementing with vitamin E could help and would not do any harm, also I would avoid foods made with soy protein................do rule out brucelosis, but I too am sceptical that a dog a can be born with it. If the mother had it she would be unlikely to produce surviving puppies?